Citizen Community Boards (CCBs) are established under local government ordinances to promote community participation and development through voluntary citizen initiatives. These non-profit boards mobilize local resources, manage public facilities, and are accountable for their actions while ensuring no profits are distributed among members. The initiative has seen significant growth in participation and project proposals following awareness and training campaigns by the Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment.

1. Citizen Community Boards [CCBs]
The institution of Citizen Community Boards has been created in the Local
Government Ordinance to enable the proactive elements of the society to participate in
community work and development related activities.
Role and Functions
In every local area (defined as Union, Tehsil/Taluqa, Town, District and City
District) a group of non-elected citizens may, for energizing the community for
development and improvement in service delivery set up a Citizen Community Board as
provided under Section 98 . Unlike NGOs, which are registered under various Acts/Laws,
Citizen Community Boards will be registered with the District Governments under
Chapter X of the Local Government Ordinance.
There can be as many CCBs in a local area as may be got registered by the
Community. All CCB members shall be volunteers. In case a member accepts any paid
assignment on behalf of the CCB, he/she shall have to resign from the membership of the
CCB. A period of six months must elapse after the last payment received from the CCB
before becoming a member again. CCBs will mobilize communities and raise funds to
solve local problems.
Section 98 (1) of the Ordinance provides the functions of CCBs. The CCBs through
voluntary, proactive and self help initiatives take up:-
a. Improvement of delivery of service by a public facility
b. Development and management of a new public facility
c. Welfare of the handicapped, destitute, widows and families in extreme poverty
d. Establishment of farming, marketing and consumers' cooperatives
e. Identification of development and municipal needs and mobilization of resources
f. Formation of stakeholders associations (means voluntary associations such as Parent
Teacher Associations, Patient Hospital Associations, School Management Associations
or Farm Water Associations or Citizen Police Associations etc.) For community
involvement in the improvement and maintenance of specific facilities; and
g. Reinforcing the capacity of a specific Monitoring Committee at the behest of the
concerned Council.
The Village/Neighborhood Council shall facilitate creation of CCBs for
development and maintenance of municipal and community welfare facilities under
Section 97(2).CCBs may also be created at the behest of the concerned Council for
reinforcing the capacity of a specific Monitoring Committee under Section 98(g).
Formation OF CCB's
The devolution plan also includes the creation of Community Citizen Boards (CCBs),
designed as voluntary organizations with official recognition through registration, to
activate citizen participation and community empowerment. The spirit behind CCBs was
to mobilize resources at the local level, make the local governments more responsive to
citizens’ priorities and cater to governance issues. The strategy is proposed to be
implemented through the Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment (DTCE). The
CCBs were envisaged to present community development projects for local council cost
sharing. They were expected to mobilize one-fifth of the budgetary costs for

2. improvement of service delivery towards public facilities or for the management of new
development initiatives and the remaining four-fifth was to be matched by the local
government
Conduct of Business
The Citizen Community Board shall be a non-profit organization and its income and
assets shall be used solely for the attainment of its objectives, and no portion of the
income shall be paid by way of dividend, profit or bonus to any of its members or
contributors. See Section 101 (1).
The code of Conduct has been provided in Section 99 of the Ordinance. The details are
provided below.
The Citizen Community Board shall have a general body of its members who shall elect
a Chairman, Executive Committee and a Secretary of the Board for carrying out its
functions. The number of members of the General Body shall not be less than twenty
five.
The term of office of the Chairman, members of the Executive Committee and Secretary
of the Citizen Community Board shall be two year extendable through election for a
similar term or terms by the general body.
All business of the Citizen Community Board shall be disposed of in its meetings, which
shall be presided over by the Chairman.
The Executive Committee of the Citizen Community Board shall hold its meetings at
least once in every three months.
The quorum of the meetings of the Executive Committee of the Citizen Community
Board shall be forty per centum of the total membership of the Executive Committee.
The quorum of the meetings of the general body of the Citizen Community Board shall
be one fourth of its total membership.
The Secretary of the Citizen Community Board shall be responsible for recording the
proceedings of the meetings and maintaining financial and accounting record.
The Secretary shall present the annual statement of accounts in the annual meeting of the
Citizen Community Board and after its approval the statement shall be submitted to the
registration authority within thirty days.
The Citizen Community Board may, in its general meeting, remove any office bearer or
member by a resolution on account of unsatisfactory performance or misconduct.
The Chairman and Secretary shall be responsible for safe custody and management of
property and assets of the Citizen Community Board.
An overview of progress
After the formation of DTCE, in start very low numbers of CCB’s were registered due to
lack of confidence and also lack of unawareness of this project.
Then Gov. decided to train CCB’s members across the country and also start a promotion
campaign for advocacy about this project. Very significant change in registration of
CCB’s and projects proposal was seen after the mobilization by DTCE. Graph show
some statically data about CCB’s projects and funds and change can be observed through
figures increasingly.

3. 2005-20111
Year CCB’s
Registered
Projects
submitted
DTCE
funded
Funds
allocation
Funds
utilized
Utilization
%
2005(June) 7754 3577 901 2182.41 818.73 37.51%
2007 21883 6878 1162 8960.84 3359.35 37.49%
2008 26114 4108 1187 10017.26 3869.29 38.63%
2009 27274 10863 1281 11792.20 5098.43 43.24%
2010 27772 11282 1380 13187.49 5537.28 41.99%
2011 33308 11599 1462 14306.21 6016.06 42.05%
Yearly comparison 2
1
Data taken from DTCE annual CCB’s Reports
2
Data taken from DTCE annual CCB’s Reports

4. References
1. DTCE Publication [online{http://www.dtce.org.pk/DTCE/public.html} retrieved on
19 November, 201]
2. Guidelines for CCBs February 2002 by National Reconstruction Bureau
3. Chapter X (Local governance ordinance 2001)